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Big strikeout game likely for Darvish

The conditions are favorable for Texas Rangers right-hander Yu Darvish to have another high strikeouts total in Wednesday night’s start against Oakland.

The free-swinging Athletics have had double-figure strikeouts in 11 games overall and five of their last seven games. In the last seven games, their hitters have combined for 73 strikeouts.

Darvish has had double-figure strikeouts in two of his last four starts. He has the second-highest strikeout rate among American League qualifiers at 10.35 per nine innings. Detroit’s Max Scherzer leads at 10.37.

Scherzer does little else. He is 2-3 with a 6.26 ERA. Darvish is 5-1 with a 2.84 ERA.